Yeah. I just hope that at some point the streaming services move to a more ethical payment model, maybe after the labels have realized they’ve screwed everyone over with this system that they fought for. Labels don't care about screwing everyone else. They are back to making money. So, problem solv...

I dunno what the answer is, but it sure as hell isn't demanding that people stay in an older mindset when they've already made it clear they'll just move on to other music instead. +++ Also if the streaming market were only independent companies like Spotify/etc., then I would say it actually would...

I still don't quite understand why things don't work that way. My hunch is it's the labels' fault but I have no actual inside info on it. We have all the data about exactly which songs spun how many times in any given time period so it's definitely not that it isn't technically feasible to pay that ...

But I'd still rather just pay for the music that I like I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that. Like go back to the mp3 store type model? Or go back to only buying CDs/vinyl and only directly from artists? Or do you mean change the way streaming services pay out royalties so at a listeners...

My initial reaction is that if an artist wants to advertise on a streaming service they should pay for an ad like any other company and keep their music off of it. At least on Pandora (and I think to varying degrees on Spotify and Apple) we have a feature called "artist audio messages" where an art...

The labels dictate the terms of what streaming services pay, and then, they largely decide how their payments get split and how much goes to artists. So, artist enemy #1 IMO is actually the labels. Secondly, streaming services cannot make profit paying the labels what they have to pay, and charging ...

https://musically.com/2019/09/10/esthero-interrupts-streaming-royalties/ Esthero's new single as available on streaming services cuts off abruptly about 1.5 minutes in. She gets on the mic to tell listeners that she doesn't make any money off of the bad evil streaming services and that they should g...

Spotify's FAQs on the subject for reference: https://artists.spotify.com/faq/mastering-and-loudness Turns out at playback time in mobile apps they apply a limiter when boosting softer tracks: Positive gain is applied to softer masters so that the loudness level is at ca - 14 dB LUFS. A limiter is al...